Markowa

Markowa
—  Village  —
Church of St Dorota in Markowa
Markowa
Coordinates: 50°1′13″N 22°18′1″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Łańcut
Gmina	Markowa
Population	4,100

The Skansen of Markowa. The typical Umgebindehaus - houses, about 150–200 km southeast of Kraków, around 18/19th century, built in the style of ancient mountain Walddeutsche atmosphere.

Markowa [marˈkɔva] (Ukrainian: Маркова, Markova) is a village in Łańcut County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Markowa. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-east of Łańcut and 22 km (14 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The village has a population of 4,100; it was fundated in 14th by the descendants of Germans colonists, as village Markhof.

Saving Jews in WWII

During World War II many families in the village hid their Jewish neighbours to help them survive the Holocaust. It is now estimated that at least 17 Jews survived the war in Markowa.

Grave monument of Ulma family executed in 1944

Seven members of the Weltz family were hidden in the barn of Dorota and Antoni Szylar. Jakub Einhorn's family was hidden by Jan and Weronika Przybylak and Jakub Lorbenfeld and his family were hidden by Michal Bar. Two girls from the Riesenbach family were initially hidden by Stanislaw Kielar, before joining the other 3 family members in the attic of Julia and Józef Bar.

On March 24, 1944 a patrol of German police came to the house of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, where they found 8 Jews belonging to the Szall and Goldman families. At first the Germans executed all the Jews. Then they shot the pregnant Wiktoria and her husband. When the six children began to scream at the sight of their parents' bodies, Joseph Kokott, a German police officer (Volksdeutsche from Sudetenland), shot them. The other killers were Eilert Dieken, Michael Dziewulski and Erich Wilde.

On the 60th anniversary of this tragedy, a memorial was erected in memory of the family.

See also

• Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

References

Bibliography

• The Righteous and their world. Markowa through the lens of Józef Ulma, by Mateusz Szpytma, Institute of National Remembrance, Poland
• Franciszek Kotula, "Pochodzenie domów przysłupowych w Rzeszowskiem." Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej Jahr. V., Nr. 3/4, 1957, S. 557

Notes

External links

• Story of the survival of the Riesenbach family
• Gisele Hildebrandt, Otto Adamski. Dorfimfersuchungen in dem alten deutsch-ukrainischen Grenzbereich von Landshuf. 1943. Kraków. Markowa